"Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune journeys one
thousand five hundred miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals,
provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of
his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the
self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of
operative instruments; his fascination with Socialism; a journey into
medical Russia; and the founding of a mobile plasma transfusion unit in
war-torn Spain. Bethune twice married and twice divorced his wife,
Frances, who chooses abortion over child-rearing in
her unstable marriage. By 1939, Bethune had been dismissed from his
Montreal Hospital for taking unconventional risks and from his volunteer
position in Spain for his chronic problems of drinking and womanizing. As his friend states: "China was all that was left." Even there, Bethune
confidently ignores the advice of Chinese officials, until heavy
casualties make him realize his mistake and lead him to a spectacular
apology." Now I though this was a snore-fest but give it a go below.
Boring as hell,
Brian
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